USS Enterprise (CVN-65) The First Nuclear Powered Aircraft Carrier

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
¿1.¿We Are Defending Our Homeland
¿2.¿Carry the Fight to the Enemy
¿3.¿Queen of the Seas
¿4.¿Offensive Action
¿5.¿Surprise Attack
¿6.¿A Full Retaliatory Response
¿7.¿A Smell of Burning Hung in the Air
¿8.¿We Will Test the Ability of These New Ships
¿9.¿The Order of Golden Shellbacks
10.¿To Slash at the Viet Cong
11.¿A New Era
12.¿In a Death Grip
13.¿Smoking Rubble
14.¿Pull Up! Pull Up!
15.¿Bandits
16.¿Untold Horror Exists Behind the Door
17.¿An Act of Piracy
18.¿Nuclear Options
19.¿Annihilate and Crush
20.¿The Dirtiest Type of Fighting
21.¿Both Guns Returning Enemy Fire
22.¿The Confidence of the MiG Pilots
23.¿Fire Roaring Across the Deck
24.¿A Quick and Telling Blow
25.¿Lose Confidence
26.¿No Advanced Warning
27.¿We Must Punish the Enemy
28.¿MiG Killers
29.¿From Generosity to Treachery
30.¿Anytime Baby
31.¿Rapidly Deteriorated
32.¿Extraordinary Reception
33.¿In All Seas and Oceans
34.¿Hell Lies Under the Arabian Gulf
35.¿The Line of Death
36.¿The Stark Has Been Hit
37.¿Vietnam Was Hovering Over Everyone's Shoulder
38.¿Incredible Bravery
39.¿We've Shed Enough Blood
40.¿Why We Are Really Here
41.¿To Make Saddam Pay
42.¿Broke His Undertakings
43.¿When You Least Expect It
44.¿We're Not Going Home
45.¿Fight to the Death
46.¿A Whole New Attack
47.¿You Never Defeated US
48.¿A Conflict of a Different Kind
49.¿We Are a Nation at War
50.¿The Character of America
Appendix 1: Commanding Officers
Appendix 2: Principal Deployments
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index